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Elemental Doodles

1/16/2018

 
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Doodle #3; hand woven tapestry; spindle spun warp and weft; natural dye; 2.5" x 2.5" (6.5cm x 6.5cm); Sarah C Swett 2018
Today it's just the yarn and me--
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Doodle #1; hand woven tapestry; spindle spun warp and weft; natural dye; 2.5" x 2.5" (6.5cm x 6.5cm); 2018
mucking about--
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in a four selvedge world. 
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Doodle #4 in progress; hand woven tapestry; spindle spun warp and weft; natural dye; 2.5" x 2.5" (6.5cm x 6.5cm); 2018
A few balls of weft--
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spindle spun wool; natural dye (indigo, weld, lobaria pulmonaria), and natural color; palette box.
a few yards of warp--
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Doodle #4 (side 1); hand woven tapestry; spindle spun warp and weft; natural dye; 2.5" x 2.5" (6.5cm x 6.5cm);
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Doodle #4 (side 2)
(ends woven in on the way)--
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Doodle #2 (side 1); hand woven tapestry; spindle spun warp and weft; natural dye; 2.5" x 2.5" (6.5cm x 6.5cm); 2018
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doodle #2 (side 2)
makes for unexpectedly deep inquiry 
into the minutiae--
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Fresh off the loom. Full Immersion will happen eventually -- hot water and a little wool wash relaxing everything.
of yarn
and shape
​and tapestry expectations.
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What are these things anyway?
Lynn
1/16/2018 06:37:15 pm

They are all of you made manifest through your hands. (I don't know, it just came to me, laden with pretension and dripping with Artistic Virtue.)

Bonnie Klatt
1/18/2018 08:09:27 am

Well said, Lynn!

Patti Kirch
1/16/2018 07:57:32 pm

On Friday's, I giggle as I weave a small comic diary, a doodle. A few blog posts back, you hooked me into attempting, one a month, your fault😊 thank you!

Christine link
1/17/2018 04:25:49 am

Inspiring! That's what they are! I need to try the four selvedge approach.

Velma Bolyard link
1/17/2018 05:10:49 am

thoughts?
plays?
pages?
prayers?

Janet Kovach
1/17/2018 06:12:09 am

on Jan. 17, 2018 at 9am on the right hand ocean coast.....Sarah, could you please explain how you got such neat edges top and bottom...and I am in Rebecca's Little Looms class and she helps me too ...did you weave a straight header across and turn It under for a neat hem? ...what held that little
header in place?...a row of twining?...thanks from Janet K who looks at some of these and sees neither header or twining--just perfect straight weaving and wonders what happens when it is cut off and the tension collapses?

Rosemary
1/17/2018 07:05:03 am

https://www.afieldguidetoneedlework.com/blog/four-selvedge-warping-instructions

Karen
1/17/2018 08:05:42 am

Love your woven doodles. Would you ever consider explaining how you weave your ends in as you go? Or is this available in the archives of your blog and I missed it somehow?

Nancy B
1/22/2018 07:08:17 am

Little thoughts you have snagged on their travels? Lots of little thoughts can make big thoughts. Philosophies, even.
(Shove up, Lynn; you're not the only one on the Pretentious Sofa today!)


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    Picture

    ​Sarah C Swett 
    tells stories
    with
    ​ and about

     hand spun yarn. 


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    Click for info on
    my four selvedge
    warping class
    with
    ​ Rebecca Mezoff  
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